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twice a day, more than sixty miles : about whose banks are so many 

 fair towns and princely palaces that a German poet thus truly 

 spake : 



TOT CAMPOS, ETC. 



We saw so many woods and princely bowers^ 

 Sweet fields^ brave palaces^ and stately towers^ 

 So many gardens dressed with curious care. 

 That Thames with royal Tiber may compare. 



2. The second river of note is Sabrina, or Severn : it hath its 

 beginning in Plynlimmon Hill in Montgomeryshire, and his end 

 seven miles from Bristol, washing, in the mean space, the walls of 

 Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Gloucester, and divers other places and 

 palaces of note. 



3. Trent, so called from thirty kind of fishes that are found in it, 

 or for that it receiveth thirty lesser rivers ; who, having his fountain 

 in Staffordshire, and gliding through the counties of Nottingham, 

 Lincoln, Leicester, and York, augmenteth the turbulent current of 

 Humber, the most violent stream of all the isle. This Humber is 

 not, to say truth, a distinct river, having a spring-head of his own, 

 but it is rather the mouth or aestuarium of divers rivers here 

 confluent, and meeting together, namely, your Derwent, and 

 especially of Ouse and Trent ; and (as the Danow, having received 

 into its channel the river Dravus, Savus, Tibiscus, and divers others) 

 changeth his name into this of Humberabus, as the old geographers 

 call it. 



4. Medway, a Kentish river, famous for harbouring the royal 

 navy. 



5. Tweed, the north-east bound of England ; on whose northern 

 banks is seated the strong and impregnable town of Berwick. 



6. Tyne, famous for Newcastle, and her inexhaustible coal-pits. 

 These, and the rest of principal note, are thus comprehended in one 

 of Mr. Drayton's sonnets. 



The floods' queen^ Thames^ for ships and swans is crown' d; 

 And stately Severn for her shore is praised ; 

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